The Qing army's cavalry surged toward the Liberation Army's defense line like a tide, but the next scene was like a wave hitting a flood dike.
No matter how rough the waves were, they disappeared behind the flood dike in the blink of an eye.
Qing soldiers came one after another and fell into the trenches of the Liberation Army.
The man is thrown over, his bones are broken and his tendons are broken!
I don’t know how many Qing cavalrymen died immediately after falling!
When the subsequent Qing troops saw this scene, they all expressed surprise, but they were all veterans and did not panic at all when they responded.
When crossing the parapet, they tried their best to make their horses leap high and move far away, trying to jump over the pit trench.
The jumping ability of the war horse is still very good!
If the Qing army's cavalry had been prepared, the horses could have jumped across the two-foot-wide trench.
A Qing army cavalryman controlled the horse and jumped high skillfully.
The strong muscles on the war horse are extremely conspicuous. The drizzle in the sky wets the mane of the war horse, which makes the war horse look even more impressive.
The war horse jumped over the ditch without any accident and landed on the ground on the other side of the ditch.
The pride on the faces of the Qing soldiers on horseback had just begun to show. With a kacha sound, the forelimbs of the war horses fell into the horse trap dug in advance by the Liberation Army.
Then, driven by the terrifying inertia, there was a kacha sound, and the forelimbs of the war horse were broken, revealing the bloody bones.
"ah……"
The Qing cavalry on horseback let out a scream, and then fell to the ground, dazed by the fall.
However, this scene is not an exception either. One or two hundred Qing cavalrymen jumped across the ditch on horseback and then fell into a horse pit.
The war horse neighed in pain, and the cavalryman on the horse was also thrown off, lying on the ground and screaming in agony.
When the large number of Qing troops behind saw this scene, they all looked frightened!
Subconsciously, he stopped his horse and slowed down.
At this moment, a group of Qing soldiers watched helplessly as the evacuating Liberation Army stopped, then turned around and came back to kill them.
These Liberation Army soldiers held muskets in their hands, their sharp bayonets were sharp, and they were filled with murderous intent!
"kill!"
"Kill the prisoners!"
"Kill the traitor!"
"..."
Amid the shouts of killing, the Liberation Army launched a charge. Under the counterattack of the Liberation Army, those Qing soldiers who fell into the horse trap and were thrown into the ditch were killed one by one.
Facing the Liberation Army who rushed forward with loaded muskets to engage in hand-to-hand combat, the Qing army's response seemed quite powerless.
In the crisp sound of gunfire, a large number of Qing troops were shot to death in the face!
The subsequent Qing troops were still rushing towards the trenches one after another, but their speed subconsciously slowed down.
After climbing over the parapet, enter the trench, and then climb up from the trench.
In any case, the Qing army did not dare to charge again!
Otherwise, those traps will kill them!
However, just as these Qing troops were about to climb out of the trench, they were greeted by a sharp bayonet.
With a pop, the bayonet pierced the Qing soldier's head, entering through the eye socket and exiting from the back of the head.
The front line of the battle between the two sides turned into a Shura field!
The two soldiers fought fiercely, and the Liberation Army assassinated the Qing army in the trench from a high position.
Not long after, the trench was filled with the corpses of men and horses, as well as injured soldiers of the Qing army.
The blood gathers into streams and flows everywhere!
A large number of wounded Qing soldiers were screaming in the trenches!
There was a section of the trench that was even filled with corpses. The Qing cavalry jumped over the parapet, and their horses stepped on the corpses in the trench and rushed towards the Liberation Army in front of them.
A wounded soldier who was lucky enough to survive was trampled by a war horse, and his screams rang out hysterically!
The cavalry walked through the ditch and came to the flat ground, but due to the existence of the horse trap, the Qing cavalry still could not run.
"kill!"
Soldiers from both sides strangled each other fiercely.
At this time, the cavalry no longer had the slightest advantage.
The next battle will be a confrontation between infantry.
However, in the infantry confrontation, the Liberation Army clearly had the upper hand.
In terms of physical fitness, both sides are about the same!
The Liberation Army are veterans who have been trained for a long time with high intensity, but this time the cavalry of the Liberation Army against the Qing army are almost all elites who have just come off the battlefield.
In terms of combat skills and experience, the Qing army actually had the upper hand.
Because most of the Liberation Army mobilized by Zhu Hongyu this time were recruits who were on the battlefield for the first time.
No matter how well the new recruits are trained, the gap in experience between them and the veterans who have fought on the battlefield is not that big.
However, the Liberation Army had the advantage in equipment in this battle!
In order to achieve the effect of the attack, the Qing army mobilized all light cavalry this time.
Basically there is no stomach armor, but the Liberation Army has at least one breastplate!
Those heavy armored infantry are even more sophisticated!
There is a huge gap in equipment between the two sides, so you can imagine what a fight would be like.
It is very similar to the time when the Qing army relied on its heavy armor advantage to bully the unarmored Ming army guards.
The two sides fought fiercely, and a Qing soldier dismounted and entered the infantry battle. The two sides fought fiercely together.
People kept falling down, and the ground was stained red with blood!
The artillery group of the Liberation Army was still firing, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the explosion rate of explosive shells dropped significantly.
The artillery of the Liberation Army began to use shotguns!
Thick volleys of shotshells were fired at the Qing cavalry crowding in front of the parapet.
Amidst the rumbling shelling, the Qing army's cavalry and war horses fell to the ground in pieces like cutting wheat.
A Qing soldier whose arm was cut off by a shotgun lay on the ground, covering his broken arm and wailing.
Broken limbs and broken arms were scattered all over the ground, and the blood and rain mixed together, turning the soil on the ground into bloody mud.
Each body gradually loses its temperature and becomes cold and stiff...
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Shang Zhixiao looked at the tragic battle ahead with a gloomy expression.
"We can't continue fighting like this. All of our Qing cavalry can't be wasted in infantry battles. Let's order the troops to withdraw from the front line!"
The Qing troops participating in the battle were all cavalry, and they were all elite cavalry from the Eight Banners of the Han Army.
Trading cavalry and infantry for lives is definitely not a wise choice!
Not to mention that the Qing army was being suppressed and beaten, the casualties were obviously much higher than those of the Liberation Army.
The casualty ratio between the two sides has even reached an exaggerated level of five to one, or even more.
This is the difference between armored soldiers and unarmored soldiers on the cold weapon battlefield!
This is the casualty ratio when the soldiers of the Qing Army were mostly experienced veterans, while the soldiers of the Liberation Army were mostly new recruits.
If the soldiers of the Liberation Army were also veterans, this casualty ratio would be even more exaggerated, and even a ten-to-one victory would not be impossible.
But even so, Shang Zhixiao was almost heartbroken.
Not to mention five to one, even if they can exchange one for one, the Qing army will still lose blood.
Because the training costs of cavalry and infantry are not the same thing at all.
The fighting on the battlefield became more and more fierce, the corpses of the Qing soldiers almost filled the trenches, and the rain in the sky became heavier and heavier.
The rain covered the sky and the soft soil under my feet became slippery!
If you step on it, you may slip accidentally.
At this time, the harsh sound of ringing gold sounded on the battlefield, and the Qing army's cavalry turned back to look, and then quickly evacuated according to military orders.